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2nd Edition

Robert Wilson

By Maria Shevtsova Copyright 2019
212 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Robert Wilson is an American–European director who is also a performer, installation artist, writer, designer of light and much more besides – a crossover polymath who dissolves both generic and geographical boundaries and is a precursor of globalisation in the arts. This second edition of Robert Wilson combines: an analysis of his main productions, situated in their American and European... Read more

List of figures

Acknowledgements

    1. A WORKING LIFE

      2. Becoming Robert Wilson

      Dance plays, silent operas and words

      Art and politics: the 1960s and after

      Wilson after Einstein

    2. METHOD, ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES

      3. A workshop method

      Elements and principles

    3. EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH

Itinerary and reception

Einstein on the Beach: a landmark

Structure and form

Breakdown of the work

Summing up

4. POST SCRIPTUM OF 2017: PUSHKIN’S FAIRY TALES

Style and 'camp'

Display and cultural evocation

5. PRACTICAL EXERCISES

Movement

Body imaging

Make-up

Composing a silent play 

Sound and music

Working with texts

Light

A short glossary of terms

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Maria Shevtsova is Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her books include Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre: Process to Performance (2004), Fifty Key Theatre Directors (2005), Sociology of Theatre and Performance (2009), Directors/Directing: Conversations on Theatre (co-authored, 2009) and The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing (co-authored, 2013). All her books have been translated into multiple languages, and she is co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly.

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